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Scientists: Give us a Revolution!

2/1/2019

 
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Fifty years ago, in July 1969, NASA put Apollo 11’s lunar module called the Eagle, and human footprints, on the moon. The moon is an average of 238,855 miles from earth. Mars, depending on its orbital time, fluctuates between 34 million to 62 million miles from earth.
 
Because Mars is the closest planet to Earthlings and has such deep fictional meaning from the earliest of observers – it’s become a focal technological challenge for wealthy businesses. But, as you know, we’re living a science Revolution and with an existential threat of losing the earth through human enterprise. Mars travel only sounds exotic. Staring at the moon provides a feeling of peace which we all long for. Scientists here on earth, specifically geneticists, if they’re firmly evolutionists, are thinking about re-engineering DNA that would enable humans to survive in increasing environmental chaos facing our planet. Talk about a long-shot!
 
I have a new idea. We have rockets, fuel, data, historical research from previous space journeys, nuclear energy, mammoth telescopes and satellites, very smart astronomers, astrophysicists, quantum computers and all that – but we are still stuck on earth.
 
Let’s put it all together, think counter-intuitively and move the moon to exist at least ½ the distance from Mother Earth. That’s right, move the Moon to relatively 119,427 miles from earth. That way, we don’t have to re-engineer human’s DNA which sounds much harder, even divine. We should plan now. We’re technologists, inventors, doers with imaginative powers. The Chinese are exploring the dark side, the USA has been on the bright side, the International Space Station is circling earth. But we’re still stuck on a warming earth.
 
Scientists warn us we need an alt-planet. Could it be the answer is staring back at us each night?  Move the moon closer to earth so we can inhabit it.  We are living in times of scientific Revolution – so give us a damn good Revolution!

Robert Waters, 2019
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Hands off: My wheel

1/11/2019

 
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By all appearances in story after story, week after week, the media taps into corporate PR and Marketing jockeying back and forth trying to win America’s heart for electric cars or autonomous cars. Will the benefits lean in favor for the environment, consumers, manufacturers, insurers, politicians or to each with variation?  It is appropriate to think about losing human cognitions when new technologies shift a phenomenon to a new idealism. The phenomenon is that the vehicle loaded up with computing systems actually moves the car in a direction under known conditions and in test environments. Will it kill the dog instead of the blind man in the crosswalk? – we don’t know exactly. Will it go to a location loaded with a bomb or could special sensors disable the vehicle? – we don’t know. When questioning deeply one should never be labeled a Luddite, alarmist or populist as one Washington D.C. think tank, the ITIF, is so adept at.  Everything is learned from the day we are born, every skill has a conception, then a memory learning process. 
We’ve driven automobiles for one century but in the next decade will require a cognitive adaptation experience which is about becoming an extension of a vehicle.  The future car needs several systems to operate; we give up personal information to co-operate.  The obvious is location data in the GPS, radar and mapping functions. We can be talking to a virtual assistant that uses a network ID. There will be a live bio-feed on the “drivers” attentiveness, pulse rate, his time in vehicle. Ownership will begin by importing his driving record, insurance and quite realistically, his public records such that when charged as a sex offender, is computer-warned to avoid school zones. The driverless car also integrates a driver’s private record much like a health record or HR background report because the car manufacturer owns their vehicles’ multi-softwares in the same way Microsoft owns Office 365. Their software must apply security which demands personalization for updates and bug fixes. The car, then, is really more like a co-sharing agreement between manufacturer and buyer due to numerous computer systems making it autonomous. 

Technological disruption and cognitive skills do have a correlation: the greater the disruption the more time it will take to believe in benefits without fear of losing personal freedom and, if there is one product that has fully delivered on the value of freedom, it is the automobile. 

Robert P. Waters
@2019
from: The Prophetic Backbone


All Aspirations Have Adversaries

11/9/2018

 
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 From: The Prophetic Backbone - eBook
A 1950’s car owner did not share his car with friends or with an opt-in community, but smart products are implicit about enabling a pathway toward social ascension, intelligence and the perception of changing one’s genetics. What does this have to do with sharing? The behavior of marketing is about marketing behaviors, whether we're reading about autonomous cars or wearable tech: buyers can share highly personal metrics. And more; he can do this in community. A notable paradigm shift has occurred in advertising’s two bedrock behavioral toolkits; sociology and psychology, now superseded by psycho-neurology and challenged by genetics.
Social behaviors are challenging to quantify for marketers; that is, to apply finite numbers on immeasurable behavioral patterns and hundreds of subjective feeling orientations. Does it feel like we're in the age of the brain economy? 
Have I failed in stating the obvious?  Technologists creating the digital future are sold-out on behavioral replication through AI; AI being the lead technology for re-creating cognitions or patterns of learning, and memorization. Ah, but the false assumption: tech firms understand human conscience. And, better than in healthcare professions. But I must be cautious; they don't  really profess superior wisdom about human nature, it's their artificial intelligent software written by them making humans "shareable." Our cars, our homes, our mobility, our health, education, employment, our genomes.  Humanity has become exactly what the first scientists in AI from the 1960's-70's proclaimed we were: general information systems. Today, t
he tech prophets' personal triumphs will be nothing short of total human genomic re-engineering. 
All aspirations have adversaries. The battle is on to preserve the human race by trying to create a new one. Are we that "shareable?"
Robert Waters
author: the prophetic backbone, an eBook coming soon.
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